Attack Targeted Palestinian Group's Base

One day after rockets were fired in the direction of Israel from a Palestinian refugee camp in southern Lebanon, Israeli warplanes violated Lebanese air space and attacked a base near Beirut belonging to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command (PFLP-GC).

Israel painted the attack as retaliation for the one the day before, though oddly the PFLP-GC doesn’t appear to have had anything to do with that one, with an al-Qaeda linked group called the Abdullah Azzam Brigades claiming credit for it. The Azzam Brigades have a history of targeting Israel.

The PFLP-GC is a group with close ties to Syria’s Assad government, and controlled the major Yarmouk refugee camp in Damascus. After rebels attacked the camp, many of its supporters have fled into Lebanon.